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Yale University Authoress Pearl Sydenstricker Buck . . . . . . M.A. Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth . . . . . . . . M.S. Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist . . . . . . . . .M.S. Ernest Fremont Tittle, liberal Methodist preacher of Evanston, Ill. . . . . . . . D.D. Director Herbert Eustis Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Hugh Smith Gumming, Surgeon General of the U. S. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Harold Willis Dodds, President-elect of Princeton University. . . . . . . . . . LL.D. William Mills Maltbie, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...three years." At Leeds she worked erratically but well, took a First and won a research scholarship at University College in London. There she shared a study with three young men, impoverished, enthusiastic students like herself; they worked, ate, argued apparently on terms of masculine equality. When, one day, Authoress Jameson had an article accepted by the New Age she was in the seventh heaven. "That paper was the Bible of our generation. We would rather go hungry than not buy it. We quoted it. argued with it, and formed ourselves on it. I suppose that Mr. A. R. Orage...
Then came the War. Authoress Jameson has never gotten over it. Her brother was killed, most of her friends. "In 1932, what lying, gaping mouth will say that it was worth while to kill my brother in his nineteenth year? You may say that the world's account is balanced by the item that we have with us still a number of elderly patriots, politicians, army contractors, women who obscenely presented white feathers. You will forgive me if, as courteously as is possible in the circumstances, I say that a field latrine is more use to humanity than these...
...Authoress Jameson is not one who enjoys writing. Says she: "I would rather not write at all than write as I do, to live. . . . I am not what you call a born writer, and I should have been much happier as an engineer. . . . Each book now represents so many months of hard bitter effort and no moments of satisfaction." But she despises writers (especially popular ones) who have no social conscience or are deliberately sentimental: "Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions...
...late Enoch Arnold Bennett, with his appetite for facts-of-modern-life, would have enjoyed this book. Nurse Adriane is a love story, but its setting, a big London hospital, is what will hold any Bennett-like reader. Against this fact-laden background almost any story would do. Authoress James writes her straightforward narrative in straightforward London (as opposed to Oxford) English; though her cases are emotional she deals with them like a competent surgeon-cutting neatly to the essential, never faltering into sloppiness...